Some advice needed please

Hi all,

I have a 2 year old cream leg bar who, along with the rest of my chickens, has decided to moult. They have been at it for about 6 weeks now. The cream leg bar looks a bit rough, as moulting chickens do, but I have noticed that she looks worse than the rest. I can hear a gurgling in her throat when she breathes and she has her mouth open most of the time. I have just caught her and segregated her and I notice that she is half the weight she used to be. Her crop is also empty. She was also a bit easy to catch. What should I do to treat this do you think?

Thanks in advance

Hi,

Yes they have been recently wormed
No red mites and no discharge
No bedding in the coop at the moment

If it is a particularly bad moult will I have to keep her isolated until its over in case it's something nasty?

Her crop should only be empty first thing on a morning at other times she should have some food in it.  Was her crop squishy?  If so she could have sour crop, there is some information on it HERE

Hi all, thanks for tha advice so far. No her crops not squishy, just nothing in it. I've seen sour crop before - I don't think this is it. She has to eaten anything since yesterday and still has very loud breathing.

Not sure what to do for the best. She has molted before but nothing like this

You could try syringing a little honey, stewed apple and crushed garlic - ANHBUC's recipe it sounds good to me for helping appetite, feeding and hydrating.